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Government Quotes
Testimony, accountability and risk assessment.
These "government" quotes come largely from public testimony and accountability — speakers describing appearances before Congress and the basic expectation that citizens deserve clear answers from officials. For related themes, see Business quotes.
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- Debt
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no constitutional basis for the federal government to be mandated to assist with student debt.
- Drafting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.
- Endowed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
- Rare
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- Nov 07, 2020
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020